make food about your culture
Mezze Culture Restaurant Partner Program
ACTIVATE YOUR RESTAURANT BRAND BY BECOMING A CULTURE ICON
We are a social good platform for the hospitality industry, which allows influencers like chefs and founders of food and beverage establishments to serve as conduits for overcoming culture barriers within their communities by hosting culture talks that foodies can subscribe to.
We do this by helping our restaurant partners activate their brand to bring in new customers and more revenue by treating their story, people and menu like a travel book on the country they represent.
It's not like Resy, Tock, OpenTable, or one-off ticketed events. It's much different. It's more like "TED Talks" for restaurants.
YOU CAN HOST SUBSCRIBER EVENTS TO BUILD CUSTOMER LOYALTY
Offer monthly event subscriptions to culture talk series on our platform, and you’ll become a monthly travel guide on the country or countries your restaurant represents. By hosting a monthly culture talk to enable foodies to learn about your culture and craft, you also extend your food and drink establishment’s reach and reputation among local enthusiasts through meaningful brand activations.
Monthly event subscription ideas you can list as a culture talk series (once or make them recurring):
Wine or food tasting or pairing classes
Chef cooking or mixologist demos
Language or conversational lessons
Ingredients and recipes workshops
History, geography & architecture classes
Music and art workshops with guests
Chef and staff meets & greets or networking
Rotating wine or tasting dinners
Plus include exclusive food, drink and swag specials and your own series subscription fee per person.
You can add one or several series to our platform. You also easily set up, edit, manage the talk listings, your foodie subscribers, and communication about the talks all through your own account dashboard.
We don’t charge our partners to use our platform. We let you set your own subscriber price to your culture talk series. We just keep a small (10%) platform fee from each subscriber to a talk, which covers the credit card transaction fees from each subscriber and helps us grow. You get paid out the rest.
WHY PARTNER WITH US TO DRIVE RECURRING MONTHLY EVENT REVENUE?
Our platform enables chefs and founders to be changemakers. The monthly events you host as culture talk series’ can showcase your culture and enable your stories to be a force for good while you generate recurring subscription revenue.
When you become a partner restaurant you join our network of chefs and founders who are spreading knowledge, love and respect across cultures by inviting locals in your community to discover the world through your business. In addition to reaching your own customers, we can reach a network of over 10,000 culture enthusiasts across Austin, Washington DC, New York City, and Tampa through email.
Join us in changing the way people see travel, by inspiring people to taste and see new cultures through local restaurants by getting to know your craft. Hosting a monthly culture talk benefits your restaurant by providing foodies in your city a one-of-kind culinary experience that showcases your restaurant's chefs and founders and the country your restaurant represents by sharing its culture through food!
GETTING STARTED AS A RESTAURANT PARTNER IS SIMPLE
Pick monthly day/time(s) for the culture talk or multiple listings for foodies to engage your storyteller.
Curate the event with food, drink or swag specials to offer.
Foodies subscribe to your culture talk series to get to know a country, and you get paid for each subscriber.